Tas repeals forestry peace deal, allowing future logging

Tasmania's Parliament has passed the State Government's signature bill to repeal the forestry peace deal.

The bill passed a vote in the Lower House, after being passed with amendments by the independent-dominated Upper House last week.

After four years of negotiations and countless hours of debate in Parliament to form the peace deal under the former Labor-Green government, it is now a thing of the past.

The deal added an extra half a million hectares of native forest to the state's existing reserves of 1 million hectares.

more: Tas repeals forestry peace deal, allowing future logging

Tasmania's Parliament has passed the State Government's signature bill to repeal the forestry peace deal.

The bill passed a vote in the Lower House, after being passed with amendments by the independent-dominated Upper House last week.

After four years of negotiations and countless hours of debate in Parliament to form the peace deal under the former Labor-Green government, it is now a thing of the past.

The deal added an extra half a million hectares of native forest to the state's existing reserves of 1 million hectares.